This is an analysis of the poem The Honest Shepherd that begins with:
When hungry wolves had trespass'd on the fold,
And the robb'd shepherd his sad story told,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011100101 1011001101 1010010101 1111110101 1101000101 1100110101 0101110001 10011001101 1101111101 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 436
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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